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Photography has always been one of my interests ever since I remember taking my very first picture (I'm not saying when that was). Over the years I have involved myself in Still, Cine and Video photography, to the extent of editing and producing my own home movies, a fascinating pursuit that has it's own treasured rewards of looking back in time to how things once were for better or for worse.

Facts on photography - still & video, digital camera selection

Just about everyone has a camera, and just to own one is a pleasure in itself, but where some hobbies end, it's what you can do with a camera that really matters.

It sometimes amazes me what pride people put into their actual Cameras, but it is really the end result - the pictures - they are all that matter come the finish.

View macutmore's flickr albums

You can view some of my own photographic work on this site along with select video stills and sequences, which will be added in time.

I have a large archive of home movies which I have enjoyed making since the days of Super 8mm film. Hours of time have been spent photographing family holidays and events which has built up a treasured collection of material, and that which is interesting to others I intend to share here!

Also using 'password protected' photo albums I am able to share select personal galleries.

Choose an online photo site for your specific needs

www.takegreatpictures.com

Nowadays we take photography for granted. We are surrounded by it- in books, magazines, and albums, or as slides, or films in the cinema and on television. But less than one hundred and fifty years ago if you wanted a picture, you had to draw it, paint it, or engrave it. Most people seldom saw what anything or anybody looked like apart from the things and people they saw with their own eyes within a mile or two of their homes.
 
Your camera, today, can simply be the little black box you use for taking family snapshots. Or it can be so much more- the key to a fascinating hobby, or even the start of an exciting career as a press photographer or a movie cameraman!

Following extensive research and checking I have now established a good shortlist of what I believe to be the best sites for photos...

 

http://flickr.com/ 

This is a superb concept and is probably the ultimate photo site today

 

http://picasa.google.com/

Excellent for organising all your pictures on your computer

 

http://www.photobox.co.uk/

This site has won many awards and is probably the best UK site for photos and features

  

Interesting layout, but members only guestbook is the drawback

 

http://www.photoaccess.com/

Looks like the most personal and permanent FREE option, but the interface for guests is password only

 

http://www.picturedot.com/

Great for everything including videos, but before 'I signed up' it said 'free video hosting', then after I'd signed up it said 'optional paid membership to get your video hosting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'

 

http://www.photobucket.com/

Limited but very handy, store videos too!

 

http://ofoto.com/

Top quality 'kodak' site that even develops your film rolls So you don't need that digital camera after all! Sadly there is no picture gallery for the public

 

http://photos.fotango.com/

A gallery but one can't view the full size images online

 

My own personal choices for online photo storage and sharing have evolved into using the following...

  

My serious online photography storage and sharing of family and personal photos can be seen in my flickr albums. Guest passes are available for family and friends in order to see my entire archives here

http://www.flickr.com/photos/macutmore/

 

  

My photobucket stores images used online within sites that are externally accessed typically from forums or online auctions

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v30/macutmore/

 

 

My yahoo 360 page

http://uk.360.yahoo.com/macutmore

 

 

My auxiliary blog space

http://macutmore.blogspot.com/

 

 

I find using a combination of online sites enables total flexibility and free use of many features that may be required as my online photographic needs evolve.

 

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